Vol. 2, which covers 1765–1800, should come out just a month or two after Vol. 1

not so far!

I actually prefer indexing my books myself, sorry

... and I'm thrilled that they will be in the excellent series Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, edited by Christia Mercer and Melvin Rogers

Here's the listing for a job as director of curriculum and outreach at the UMass Amherst Slavery North Initiative: slaverynorth.com/job/curricul...

Here's the listing for the Artist-in-Residence fellowship at the UMass Amherst Slavery North Initiative: slaverynorth.com/job/fellowsh...

Here's the listing for the visiting research professor fellowship at UMass Amherst's Slavery North Initiative: slaverynorth.com/job/fellowsh...

Here's the listing for the UMass Amherst associate professor position in public history: slaverynorth.com/job/job-asso...

and here's the entire special issue, with lots of fabulous papers: jmphil.org/issue/318/in...

here's the abstract:

Yes, unfortunately I had to omit several important authors; Smith ended up being less central to my project than many others, for various reasons, mainly because I focus on the role of race in debates about slavery (and chose not to discuss debates over the profitability of slavery)

Participants of the NEH Institute "Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy" will receive a stipend of $2,850 to defray housing and transportation costs. More information is here: